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Grant Kenny Buys Private Aviation Firm: Olympian and former ironman Grant Kenny has acquired Western Australia's largest privately owned aviation company, Slingair Heliwork WA, in a multi-million transaction.The Kununurra-headquartered company comprises two divisions, Slingair fixed-wing aircraft and Heliwork WA helicopters.It provides scenic air tours and safaris, and operates charter services, such as mining exploration and...; Tags: AAP, East Coast, Acquisition, Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Aircraft, Business, Aerospace & Defense, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Manufacturing, Investment, Finance, Business Operations; News items 2008-05-06
Coca-Cola Seeks More Acquisitions to Grow Business: TOKYO (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co KO, the world's biggest drinks maker, is seeking more acquisition opportunities in the fast-growing soft drinks market to expand its revenue sources, the company's CEO-in-waiting said on Tuesday. Sales of established soft drinks are declining in the ...; Tags: Food & Beverage, Sales strategy, Coca-Cola Co., beverage, foreign-exchange, quarterly profit, acquisition, income statement, sales, Thomson Reuters Corp., New York, emerging market, revenue, net income, income, asset; News items 2008-05-13
Illinois Tool to Buy Enodis For 1.03 Billion Pounds: LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Enodis ENO has agreed to be bought by Illinois Tool Works ITW for 1.03 billion pounds, turning its back on the agreed 948 million pounds takeover by U.S.-based Manitowoc MTW. The shares in Enodis, the maker of fast-food fryers, were ...; Tags: Food, Acquisition, Offer, Price, Enodis, Illinois Tool Works, Illinois Tool Works Inc., Manitowoc Co. Inc.; News items 2008-05-08
G4S Upbeat But Shares Dip on Placement Move: By Kim McLaughlin COPENHAGEN (Reuters UK) - Anglo-Danish security services firm G4S GFS said on Tuesday its underlying performance was slightly ahead of management's expectations and that it was confident about its 2008 performance. But shares in the world's top guard and security firm fell ...; Tags: Acquisition, Growth, Performance, G4S, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Performance Management, Security; News items 2008-05-13
NAB's Great Western Purchase Approved: National Australia Bank Ltd's $900 million purchase of US regional lender Great Western Bank has been approved by the American central bank.The US Federal Reserve board's approval of NAB's acquisition of Great Western's holding company was the last banking regulatory approval needed for the acquisition.NAB originally announced the purchase...; Tags: Acquisition, Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Banking, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Financial Services, AAP; News items 2008-04-28

Rentokil Profit Slumps: By Mark Potter LONDON (Reuters UK) - Pest control to parcel delivery group Rentokil Initial RTO expects to slash its dividend this year after first-quarter profit more than halved, it said on Friday. The services group, which has issued three profit warnings since December, announced...; Tags: Acquisition, Dividend, Financial Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Corporate Law, Finance, Amazon.com Inc.; News items 2008-05-02
Aberdeen Buys Goodman Property Investors: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Aberdeen Asset Management ADN said on Tuesday it would become one of the world's ten biggest property asset management firms after agreeing to buy Goodman Property Investors GPI for around 89 million pounds. The fund manager said the acquisition of rival GPI...; Tags: Asset, Aberdeen Group Inc., Acquisition, Investor, Goodman Property Investors, Asset Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Real Estate; News items 2008-05-06
Verizon Wireless completes SureWest Acquisition: Verizon Wireless has completed its acquisition of the wireless assets of independent US communications holding company SureWest Communications. Under the terms of the previously announced sale, the operating assets of SureWest's wireless business, including spectrum licenses, have been transferred to Verizon Wireless for an aggregate cash purchase price of...; Tags: Asset, Acquisition, SureWest Communications, Verizon Wireless, Asset Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, John Edwards; News items 2008-05-12
Don't Believe the Hype: Strategic Acquisitions Can Benefit Firm Performance: While mergers and acquisitions have slowed in the lagging economy - particularly following the unprecedented boom in deals in the late 1990s and 2000 - a professor of organization and management at Emory University's Goizueta Business School is likely not surprised by recent M&A activity in the software industry. After...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, BetterManagement.com, M&A, acquisition, professor, performance, benefit, software; White papers
Empowerment in the Context of Transformational Change: A Study of Acquisitions and Privatizations in Eastern Europe: This paper examines conditions under which empowerment (decision autonomy, dialogic leadership) is connected with positive and negative effects, respectively, in regard to managing transformational change in Eastern Europe. Acquisitions by foreign investors in Poland and Russia (N = 45 companies) and privatizations through employee buy-out in Romania (N = 5...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, AllBusiness.com, empowerment, privatization, Eastern Europe, crisis management, acquisition, leadership; White papers
Good Communication Is Essential for Successful Mergers and Acquisitions: Good communication is essential to successful mergers and acquisitions. The communication role needs to begin during the preliminary stages to set the scene. Too often the communication doesn't start until too late. Mergers and acquisitions go through three broad phases. Overwhelming experience indicates directly or indirectly that people issues are...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, M&A; White papers
Divest and Conquer - How to Make Your Company a More Attractive Acquisition Target: The paper depicts that divesting a company is often seen as an admission of failure or a sure sign of a company in crisis. Yet, just as farmers prune their trees to help them grow; smart companies understand that divestitures are all part of the corporate lifecycle. While many divestitures...; Tags: Corporate law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial accounting, Hewitt Associates LLC, divestiture, core competency, acquisition, financial; White papers
Unifying Sales Incentives Following Growth Through Acquisitions: In the aftermath of over 20 acquisitions in five years, a global image databank had many different sales incentive plans in place around the world. Management wanted to harmonize the plans so sales reps would all be paid and rewarded in the same way and to support the company's new...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Mercer, sales, acquisition, sales force, equity, incentive, Web; Case studies
Standard Form 1447, Solicitation/Contract: This form is used in connection with negotiated acquisitions that use the simplified contract format and may be used in lieu of SF 26 or SF 33 for other acquisitions. Award is generally made using the award portion of the SF 1447.; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Office Depot Inc., acquisition; Tools & templates
Case Study - Magnus Field, UK North Sea a Strategy for Improved Oil Recovery: The WesternGeco Q-Marine survey over the Magnus field addressed the key business drivers for BP in the North Sea: increasing near- and long-term cash flow from existing assets and prolonging viable field life. WesternGeco applied an integrated project design IPD process using existing seismic and borehole information, conducted bandwidth analysis...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Schlumberger Ltd., acquisition, imaging, asset, strategy; Case studies
New Product Strategy and Partnership/Acquisition Focus for Medical Products Company: This $200 million disposable medical device division of an international medical products company faced maturity in its present markets and limited R&D funds to allocate to next-generation products. PRTM was hired to implement an actionable product strategy so the company could realize its dreams of being a major player in...; Tags: Business structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, HEALTHCARE, Corporate law, PRTM, medical device, medical product, partnership, acquisition, product development, R&D; Case studies
Assessing Insurance Deals: Insurance industry mergers and acquisitions skyrocketed during the bull market of the late 1990s but created little shareholder value. Some deals, however, were more successful than others. The paper briefly depicts that investors preferred deals for growth over those chasing cost synergies and acquisitions of divisions over purchases of companies...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, Financial accounting, McKinsey & Co., insurance, M&A, shareholder, acquisition; White papers
Merger Valuation: Time to Jettison EPS: Under new accounting rules, few if any acquisitions appear to dilute earnings per share - but this doesn't mean that acquisitions are any more likely to create value. Even those that appear to increase a company's earnings per share can actually destroy it. In view of the changed accounting rules,...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Financial accounting, McKinsey & Co., earnings per share, acquisition, accounting, merger; White papers
BDC Perspective - Business Acquisitions: Where to Start: If a person is growing his or her business, the person can choose to do it internally, which could be a sluggish, high-risk strategy in a fast-moving business world. Or, the person can opt for the key advantages of acquiring an existing business. Acquiring a business helps to avoid the...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, acquisition, strategy; White papers
Executing a Quick Acquisition: A chemical manufacturer planned to expand its presence outside the US by acquiring a division of a much larger US multinational. The combined entities with multiple locations in 35 countries and 25,000 employees needed to be consolidated, requiring the closure of several offices and the severance of some employees. Using...; Tags: Benefits, Mercer, employee benefit, benefit plan, database system, stock, agreement, acquisition, benefit, financial, tool; Case studies